CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2025-24190 — The issue was addressed with improved memory handling
The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, iPadOS 17.7.6, macOS Sequoia 15.4, macOS Sonoma 14.7.5, macOS Ventura 13.7.5, tvOS 18.4, visionOS 2.4, watchOS 11.4. Processing a maliciously crafted video file may lead to unexpected app termination or corrupt process memory.
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.8 (3.1)
- Published
- 2025-03-31
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- apple/platform
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Affected products
- apple / ipados
- apple / iphone_os
- apple / macos
- apple / tvos
- apple / visionos
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Matched remediation archetype
Resource exhaustion and denial of service
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Check exposure
- Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
- Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
- Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.
Remediate safely
- Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
- Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
- Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.
Authoritative sources
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